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Reducing Embodied Carbon is Important

ACM Sigarch

Embodied carbon is due to Scope 3, e.g., manufacturing IT hardware and datacenter construction. Chien’s argument: Embodied carbon numbers are disproportionately large Rebuttal: Large embodied carbon numbers are reported by companies who have set public goals to reach net zero emissions by 2030.

Energy 98
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Measuring Carbon is Not Enough?—?Unintended Consequences

Adrian Cockcroft

This is basically the position of the major cloud providers, they will all take care of it for you by 2030 or so. The carbon footprint of a large rack mounted server is order-of-magnitude a ton of carbon a year. You trust your suppliers to solve the problem for you, but that could take a long time.

Energy 52
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 14th, 2018

High Scalability

Hey, it's HighScalability time: The Cloud Native Interactive Landscape is fecund. And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. changelog ). Do you like this sort of Stuff?